Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rising hope for peace in Viet Nam last week gave the stock market another explosive lift. For the third time in two weeks, trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange spurted to a new daily record: 20,410,000 shares on April 10. Even with trading cut to three days by suspensions for Martin Luther King's funeral and Good Friday, the Dow-Jones industrial average rose 39.88 points to make a two-week gain of 65.02. It was the sharpest rally of the decade, and it hoisted the index of 30 blue-chip industrial shares...
During the 1950's and early 1960's the federal government disposed of much of its stock of surplus World War II small arms to NRA members--only one to a customer. They snapped up thousands of .45 pistols at $17 and M-1 carbines at $20, about a third of what the government paid for the guns. Since stocks of the weapons are now exhausted, the sales have ended...
Next day was quieter, as stock prices edged up a bit more (2.71 points on the Dow-Jones industrials) and volume held high (14.52 million shares). On Wednesday, with the news that North Viet Nam was at least willing to talk, the trading avalanche roared to a 19.29 million-share crescendo. The ticker fell an unprecedented 47 minutes behind the action on the Big Board floor. Perspiring brokers cheered again and again as volume figures flashed across the magnified tapes projected along trading-room walls. The bellwether industrial average soared more than 13 points before profit-taking sales pulled...
...week's end, few brokers expected the stock market to sustain its momentum in the weeks just ahead. Said Newton D. Zinder, a top E. F. Hutton & Co. analyst: "The market now is vulnerable to bad news, just as it was vulnerable to good news before." Yet peace, if it comes, seems likely to push stock prices to new highs. That is what happened sooner or later after World Wars I and II and the Korean...
...gold-blue Grand Ballroom were prominent doctors, musicians, presidents of department stores, architects, and lawyers, ambassadors and ambassadors' wives, wives of governors, women housing commissioners, women officials in local, state, and federal government, women in life insurance, women in publishing, and the first woman member of the New York Stock Exchange. There were elegant ones, and dowdy ones, and young ones, and black ones, and behatted ones. The ladies were fed on seagull soup, delicate chicken breasts with green noodles and pickled apricots, and multi-colored ice-cream in the shape of cellos, tubas, or clarinets. The lady...